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Women Directors

In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.

Alex Heeney / September 7, 2025

The best acquisition titles at TIFF 2025 (updating throughout the festival)

From Iran’s Between Dreams and Hope to Argentina’s The Currents to Canada’s Meadowlarks, here are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the UK) at TIFF 2025

Alex Heeney / July 17, 2025

Ep. 179 What if we told stories about women beyond their love lives?

Rewatching Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) sparked this podcast where Alex Heeney asks: What happens when women’s stories aren’t built around who they end up with?

Seventh Row Editors / June 19, 2025

Ep. 176 Materialists (dir. Celine Song)

On the podcast, Alex Heeney takes a close look at Celine Song’s film Materialists, which poses the question: Is love enough when money is tight? Alex digs into the film’s strengths and weaknesses.

Seventh Row Editors / June 14, 2025

Ep. 175 How three very different films ended up in conversation

Join me (Alex Heeney) on a journey through three films I programmed inside Reel Ruminators — a British political thriller, an Indigenous Canadian documentary, and a queer South African drama — and discover how their contrasts help to illuminate each other.

Seventh Row Editors / June 6, 2025

Ep. 174 Mission: Impossible (1996) with Angelo Muredda

With the final chapter of the Mission: Impossible saga now in cinemas, we rewind to where it all began: Brian De Palma’s 1996 original.

Alex Heeney / June 5, 2025

HotDocs Review: Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest

Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.

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